Childbirth And Breastfeeding Can Reduce Breast Cancer Risk Shows New Study

Childbirth And Breastfeeding Can Reduce Breast Cancer Risk Shows New Study

Childbirth And Breastfeeding Can Reduce Breast Cancer Risk Shows New Study – credit Leighann Blackwood Scientists in Australia, which endures the highest rates of breast cancer in the world, have presented multiple lines of evidence to suggest that breastfeeding and childbearing reduces a woman’s risk for developing breast cancer. The scientists started by first pointing out that as far back as 300 years ago, people noted that women who didn’t have children—nuns, in this case—suffered from the highest rates of breast cancer in society. More modern research confirmed these early observations, but the mechanism behind why that might be remained hidden. While previously hypothesized to be the work of hormonal shifts, the answer now seems clear: breastfeeding works on the human immune system. “Pregnancy and breastfeeding leave behind long-lived protective immune cells in the breast and the body, and these cells help to reduce risk and improve defense against breast cancer, particularly triple-…